Release Date: January 9, 2018
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Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Director: John Ford
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Starring: Henry Fonda, Kenneth Macgowan, Alice Brady, Richard Cromwell, Marjorie Weaver
Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it, Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be as a novice lawyer, struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.
(Scene below is Not the Criterion transfer)
Prices and Links:
Criterion - $31.96
Amazon - $28.35
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Director: John Ford
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Starring: Henry Fonda, Kenneth Macgowan, Alice Brady, Richard Cromwell, Marjorie Weaver
- United States
- 1939
- 100 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- English
- Spine #320
Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it, Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be as a novice lawyer, struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride (Searching for John Ford: A Life)
- Omnibus: John Ford, part one: director Lindsay Anderson’s profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II
- Talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975
- Audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the filmmaker’s grandson Dan Ford
- Academy Award radio dramatization of the film
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein
(Scene below is Not the Criterion transfer)
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